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YES, we did it! And it was amazing. Report links are below, but first, a few Lessons: Against conventional wisdom, 9 months before the Summit date – prime time to secure supporting partners, featured voices, and a venue – I went offline for two months in Peru, lived in a tent and volunteered for the Paititi Institute‘s cultural and ecological center (a mission aligned EW fiscally sponsored initiative). WHY? Because the procedure of immersing in a new culture and language during the unknown …

Can we create a more selfless world? Yes! Partake in this idea! Rio de Janeiro hosts Global Innovation Forum by Maíra Teixeira da Silva After the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro hosted an international event intended to move people to build a new age of sustainable and socially impactful businesses. The Global Summit – V Fórum de Inovação Social was a gathering of people that see co-creation as the best …

PRESS RELEASE :: July 15, 2016 Melanie St. James, Executive Producer EMAIL: msj@theglobalsummit.org Phone: + 55 (21) 9-6936-3915 www.theglobalsummit.org This August as the Olympic torch dims, The Global Summit will light up it next transformational conversation on the front lines of social change. After years of Rio’s local issues being side-lined by mega events, ‘THE GLOBAL SUMMIT V: Empowering Humanity through Transparency’, will illuminate solutions around everything from climate change to expanding equal access to …

Over the past year, Nepal national, and Empowerment WORKS’ regional director, Bandita Thapa led disaster relief and locally-led resilience with communities devastated by Nepal’s 2015 earthquake (original campaign here). Now, with a focus on resiliency, Bandita and team work to unite a diverse network of local partners to launch ‘Catalyst Action Training (CAT)’, a new 7SS train-the-trainer program – Spring 2017! On 25 April 2015 a devastating earthquake left nearly 9,000 dead and more than twice as many severely …

Author: Anonymous Zimbabwean national living in Zimbabwe There are few places in the world, which have the blessings of nature in terms of biodiversity. One of them a landlocked country deep in the savannah of southern Africa, called Zimbabwe. With such idyllic scenarios of lush vegetation, abundant wildlife one would think the people and animals of Zimbabwe are living in a mini version of paradise. Alas that is not the case, the country lies in …

The fourth edition of The Global Summit will be held in San Francisco, November 16th-18th, with the headline Women, Power, Money, & Politics SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Saturday, October 18th – The Global Summit, the social, economic and environmental forum held every two years, today announced its theme for 2014: Women, Power, Money, & Politics. The group revealed that the fourth biennial edition of The Global Summit, will be held in San Francisco, CA from …

What is RallyTeam and why does it matter to The Global Summit? Our supporting partners at RallyTeam have created a leading edge platform for enterprise that enables huge networks to collaborate and track impact. Using each Summit to identify needs and inform universal impact standards, we are developing an online community support system called 1PIE.org in Beta 2014 as “1PIE.rallyteam.com”. Learn how it works in this TechCrunch review and imagine… Posted Sep 8, 2014 by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) Get Real Career Development Help with RallyTeam Many businesses these days struggle to retain their employees — …

Last updated on 9 September 2014, 7:46 am Climate change secretary Ed Davey says governments facing ‘pivotal moment’ on dealing with issue By Fiona Harvey, the Guardian World governments are facing a “pivotal moment” on dealing with climate change, the UK’s energy secretary will say on Tuesday, before a meeting of heads of state and government in New York this month. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has called the meeting of world leaders on the back of the …